#adaptive kitchen tools

[dallomi]

Low vision friendly meat thermometer buying guide with a fast check for tactile buttons, audio, and safety. See what most people miss before you buy.

Low Vision Friendly Meat Thermometer: Tactile Buttons and Loud Audio That Actually Help in a Real Kitchen

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Family thanksgiving was nice, Delade and I made apple pie and a broccoli cheddar thing which is my favorite. I love cooking but with all the shoulder/hand pain I’ve been trying to deal with it was kind of an ordeal to even make those two things, but it was worth it. A lot of what we’ve been making on regular days has been like, really simplified recipes or basic things like pasta, which are fine, but I miss really getting into something and making something more complicated or fun. I just don’t have the physical stamina or hand control to be able to all the time and it’s kind of sad. I miss it a lot.

Also, if you’re like me and chopping things might potentially be on the dangerous or difficult side sometimes (shaky hands) get yourself one of these things:

This isn’t the exact one I have but it’s almost identical, you swap out the green blade pieces for the size you want and then just press the top gray part down onto the veggie and it chops everything for you. I just searched “food chopper” and a bazillion different ones came up. It also makes it go so much faster so unless you love chopping stuff by hand or are some kind of very precise chef or something, this kind of thing is just super handy in general.

The other nice thing today was getting to pet kitties. My mom has two cats that just turned two (they are sisters from the same litter) and they’ve been very skittish until recently. One of them is very fluffy and she rolled over so I could give her fluffy belly rubs, on purpose even, without attacking. I have been blessed. I declared we are friends now, and she did not protest. I miss my cat so much and this was so nice. ;_____________;

New/ongoing goal in life: get our shit together so we can have our own place and afford to be responsible cat owners again. Theoretically we could get a cat, but I wouldn’t feel right about it without more financial stability, especially not after how quickly Milo got sick and it had to be dealt with as an emergency. I just really miss having a little fuzzy buddy of my own.

Anyway, if you’re in the US I hope you had a nice thanksgiving, or at the very least a nice day. ❤️